Meet the Devex Authors

Aggrey Agumya

Aggrey Agumya

Aggrey Agumya is the executive director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). FARA is the technical arm of the Africa.
Agnes Binagwaho

Agnes Binagwaho

Professor Agnes Binagwaho is the vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, a global university in the rural north of Rwanda focused on changing the way health care is delivered around the world by training the next generation of global health professionals to provide more equitable, quality health services for all. She is a Rwandan pediatrician who has served the health sector in various high-level government positions, first as the executive secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, then as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health, and then for five years as minister of health.
Agnes Callamard

Agnes Callamard

Agnes Callamard serves as the executive director of ARTICLE 19, a human rights organization that defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world. Established in 1987, ARTICLE 19 fights for all hostages of censorship, defends dissenting voices that have been muzzled, and campaigns against laws and practices that silence.
Agnes Kalibata

Agnes Kalibata

Agnes Kalibata has served as the president of AGRA since 2014, where she leads the organization’s efforts with public and private partners to ensure a food-secure and prosperous Africa through rapid, inclusive, sustainable agricultural growth, improving the productivity and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. Prior to joining AGRA, Kalibata was Rwanda’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, and from 2019 to 2021, Kalibata served as the special envoy of the U.N. secretary-general for the 2021 Food Systems Summit.
Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing is an economist who leads a global research program on gender and assets at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She previously led a multi-country research program that examined how differences in bargaining power within households affect individual and household wellbeing, among other issues. She has worked on gender and land issues in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia and her native Philippines.
Ahmad Alhendawi

Ahmad Alhendawi

Ahmad Alhendawi is the secretary general and CEO of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, one of the world’s leading education youth movement supporting over 54 million members in 171 national Scout Organizations. He served as the first-ever United Nations secretary-general’s envoy on youth. He serves as a board member in a number of international organizations and is a recipient of a number of national and international awards.
Ahmad Masoud

Ahmad Masoud

Ahmad Masoud is founder and director of the Consumer Rights and Services Organization, the first non-political, non-for-profit, independent national organization working to promote consumer rights and fair competition in Afghanistan. CRSO is a member of U.K.-based federation Consumers International.
Ahmat Mahamat Bachir

Ahmat Mahamat Bachir

Ahmat Mahamat Bachir has been Chad's minister of mining, industrial and commercial development and private sector promotion since November 2018. He studied at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Algiers and, in 1987, was awarded a master's degree in political science, majoring in international relations.
Ahmed Mohamed

Ahmed Mohamed

Ahmed Mohamed is the deputy director and heads of programmes at Save Somali Women and Children, a national NGO that has been supporting Somali women and girls for nearly three decades.
Aida Meskel

Aida Meskel

​​Aida Meskel, MPH, is senior director of value and access for Gilead Sciences Global Patient Solutions, responsible for low- and middle-income countries in emerging markets. Meskel has more than a decade of experience in global health care collaboration in various roles focused on developing sustainable business models and access solutions. She has held roles across the public sector, in multilateral organizations, and the biotech industry with increasing responsibility. Meskel holds a bachelor of science in biotechnology from La Salle University and a master’s in public health from Boston University.